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More Linux Activity in German Government
"9 more cities in Rheinland-Pfalz, including the capital Mainz, are seriously considering to replace most, if not all of their Microsoft software with Linux after their current contracts expire in early 2004, noting that there are many other cities in a similar situation, and with similar plans.
Meanwhile, the police in Niedersachsen (german) is busy rolling out RedHat Linux on 11,620 desktops and 120 servers, running both standard Linux software and a custom information system called "Nivadis" based on WebLogic and Oracle running on Itanium servers, citing savings of about EUR 20 Mio compared with a Windows-based solution.
In a less desktop-related project, the state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern started a project with SuSE, IBM and others porting a mission-critical system called ProFiskal from Reliant Unix to Linux on zSeries, again citing cost as the primary reason, but also noting the benefits of using open standards for both software developers and users."
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The decision of da bavarian capital city Munich switch they desktop systems Linux has caused a lot of discussion, 'n has been widely regarded as an important step fo' Linux on da desktop, know what I'm sayin'? And even if Microshizzle tried hard make they offerings mo' attractive since, including a special license contract that could save da public sector 'a lot of paper' according interior minister Otto Schily, that shiznit looks as if Munich wuz only da beginning n' shit.
More like Capitalist (Microsoft) vs Socialist (Linux).
Sure, mod me down, but you still know it's true.
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Lets's have a look at the source code....(http://www.lochner-fischer.de/the/thefri
That's the answer I was implying, not the Holier-than-thou timezone bullshit answer that was modded +5 Dipshit
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That is a "problem" with the shop - not with Microsoft's software.
Besides, if your workplace has a policy of only using software from a single manufacture - it makes sense to have a homogeneous envirnoment, you know - it's just that: a company policy. You do your work with the tools you've been given. Or do you perhaps complain about the color of your computer or your cubicle walls too?
Or people who buy an OEM boxen and have Windows XP shoved in their face on first boot?
So, you would like to coerce technically less adept people into making decisions about their operating system or even coerce them into installing it?
If you insist on having Linux on your box, it's not really that hard to shove in a RedHat 9 disc and boot...
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Put GNOME on their Desktop and they rush back to Microsoft faster than the time needed to install Linux. They even agree to pay them 25% more to Microsoft afterwards due to good services. All this hacked and crashing shit is nothing one can use to do business job. At the end their money savings will come us more expensive than assumed in first place. Not to mention that it may cause a total economic disaster.
Are you a drunken idiot? Or is it just the name of your site?
They're a commercial company, it's in their interests to kill off old products as people aren't going to buy your new ones.
Every company has to draw the line somewhere, otherwise their support departments will have to keep on growing, eating away at profits.
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I don't see why this is such a big surprise.
This is just a kind of knee-jerk reaction against
American business and capitalism (in general).
All this proves is that there are a lot of
leftist/socialis/marxist types running around
Germany.
As far as real-world IT competence, I would go with an American IT person anyday, or possibly somebody from Asia. Anyone else is generally in IT because they heard you can make a lot of money convincing management fools that they know what they are doing. The language barrier helps out a lot in this regard, as does a low salary.
Oh, but back to Germans. Most of them like to do 'strategic planning' for a few years before the release of anything new. I remember they were planning out their Active Directory since about 1996, with frequent trips to the US required so they could purchase blue jeans and laptops.
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